Almost a month ago our little family spent the weekend up in the cities with our wonderful friends Chris and Tasha. The reason for the trip was to spend a Saturday morning at Children's Home Society in Minneapolis to learn more about adoption. Jim and I were going into this meeting with the thought of getting more information and seriously considering this as an option to grow our family. After we left the meeting and got into the car we were both speechless, we were both so overwhelmed with everything we just learned and I think felt a little defeated that it's a lot more than either of us expected. I had done my fair amount of research before the meeting but hearing it and all the realities of everything adoption is was overwhelming and emotionally draining. After the meeting and finally being able to discuss it we have decided to pursue fertility treatments. Not to say that adoption is not for us, because I think it definitely could be. We both feel that we have not tried hard enough with fertility treatments to grow our family, and honestly it's a heck of a lot cheaper! So the next time someone tells me "well can't you JUST adopt?", I may slap them! Thankfully before we left for the cities we were offered free tickets to see the MAVS hockey team play at the Excel Center Saturday night, one overwhelming weekend was turned into a fabulous time had by all of us!
Recently I had the fun female exam we all look forward to on a yearly basis, well for me it had been about three years so I figured it was time. It was also time for me to use this annual visit to ask as many questions as I could about fertility treatments and not be charged for a fertility treatment visit! Well right before my annual exam I was at my GI doctors office for a visit. He is all on board with fertility treatments (Yeah!), although he recommended getting vaccinated against Hep. B, great whatever, he tells me I can do the five month round of shots while pregnant. I should also say that my rhuematologist is also on board with pregnancy (another Yeah!). All my meds are safe during pregnancy as well (hell yeah!). So I'm going into the gyno exam pretty pumped, like let's get things rolling here. We are totally ready, finally! No, so not the case. According to my lady doctor, she wants me to finish the Hep B vaccine first, well if I would have known that I probably wouldn't have just started the vaccine round an hour prior to that! Insert big F word right here. So on to another wait.
Medically with me right now if something could be flaring or not right, it's happening. Two months ago I was feeling awesome, everything was great. This week everything is not great. My one eye is still battling active inflammation, my colitis that has been under control for three years and has now decided not be under control, another damn sinus infection and my joints suck. This is not supposed to be happening, I'm supposed to be working on paragraph two! It's time's like this where I think that paragraph one is the better option medically. Just a little glimpse into how physical diseases can really play cruel mind games! So, if I do go bat shit crazy, this could be part of it.
Time to go enjoy and be grateful for the one wonderful child we have, I'm off to a first grade play!
Em
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